From card: "Kla-ash".This may be the last basket described on p. 106 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.. It is the right type, the collection information and measurement given in the book matches 72663, and 72664 and 72665 are also described in that publication. The basket is described there as: "Basket. Basket used to hold spear-heads and other small articles when sealing - called by the Makahs, "Kla-ash." A very fine specimen. Double, made for a chief, and was procured as a special favor. Such baskets are never offered for sale. After having been used they acquire additional value, and to sell one is deemed unlucky. This being new, was more easily obtained. Length, 19 inches. Makah Indians, Cape Flattery, 1883. James G. Swan."

From card: "Typical checker woven wallet of cedar bark; folded bottom."

From card for E23523-46: "Dec 20, 1972, Bill Holm says that these are definitely Haida."Cultural ID for paddles E23523 - 23546 is somewhat in question. They were catalogued as Clallam, Bill Holm has identified them as Haida, but James Swan in correspondence in the accession file references 24 Bella Bella paddles.

LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY CAST SENT TO WAYNESBURG COLLEGE, PA, 1934.

Provenience note: many objects in the Chirouse collection were catalogued as Duwamish, however that really only seems to definitively apply to Catalogue No. 130965. Accession record indicates that the collection is the "handiwork of the Snohomish, Swinomish, Lummi, Muckleshoot and Etakmur Indians on the Tulalip Reservation in Washington Territory".

FROM CARD: "1 ACCOUNTED FOR WITH ATTACHED LANYARD, 12/13/66 GP. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 2B, PG. 424."Listed on page 49 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)".